Bates Mill Complex

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Positioned at the center of Lewiston's Riverfront Development, Mill #3 of the Bates Mill Complex offers a rare convergence of historic character, downtown location, and powerful redevelopment incentives — equally suited to a single-tenant owner/user headquarters or a mixed-use, multi-tenanted transformation with residential at its core. 169,000± SF across four floors — ideal for adaptive reuse. Stacked incentives that meaningfully reduce basis. Lewiston is Maine's second-largest metro, 45 minutes from Portland. Lender-owned. See Brokers for Pricing Guidance and Offer Instructions. Set on the banks of the Androscoggin River, Lewiston is Maine's third-largest city and a place where 19th-century industrial ambition meets 21st-century reinvention. The city's identity was forged by the Bates Mill complex, built in the 1850s, once Maine's largest textile employer. Today, the same mills that once powered Maine's textile industry are now home to breweries, restaurants, offices, and residences. Downtown Lewiston has seen renewed momentum in recent years, with roughly $175 million in public and private investment flowing into Lisbon Street and the surrounding neighborhoods, alongside a walkable downtown and a growing calendar of community events. The city also has one of the youngest age profiles in the region, with about a third of Lewiston's population under 25, and a diversified economy spanning education, health care, manufacturing, and technology. Limited regional availability of redevelopment-ready sites has created strong demand for the kind of space Lewiston's historic mill buildings offer.